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The head-down, slightly hunched position that is characteristic of a person using a BlackBerry or similar device.
Example Citations:Without a doubt, the biggest workplace changes involve computers and communication. Employees are linked to their jobs practically around the clock. There's been a revolution in smart phones like the Treo and BlackBerry that allow people to communicate by E-mail and IM (which your kids will soon explain, if you don't understand) and access the Web from soccer fields and doctors' waiting rooms. If you haven't used them yet, you've almost certainly been to a dinner party or school event where someone's hunched over in the "BlackBerry prayer," thumbing an E-mail response.—Kerry Hannon, "What's Changed at Work While You Were Out," U.S. News & World Report, February 1, 2008

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Stomach upsets caused by bacteria from dirty computer keyboards.
The phrase “qwerty tummy” is in the news once more, following revelations from the Royal Society of Chemistry that mouse droppings are being found on office keyboards. Paul Sims wrote in The Daily Mail:

A spokesman for the RSC said: “There is evidence that mice run along a computer keyboard, pressing down on the keys to get at food crumbs left by people snacking while working.
“That is why it is important to wash your hands before eating food.” Computer keyboards have long been blamed for causing health problems. Research conducted by Which? in 2008 found they can harbour more harmful bacteria than a lavatory seat.
Many users, they said, are at risk of becoming ill with stomach bugs dubbed “qwerty tummy” after the first six letters on a keyboard.
source: Schott's Vocab

A new way to use geek as a transitive verb to mean "be geekily enthusiastic about."

geek, verb
1. To love, to enjoy, to celebrate, to have an intense passion for.
2. To express interest in.
3. To possess a large amount of knowledge in.
4. To promote.

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Blend di cheat (tradire) e text, pratica del tradimento via sms.

Secondo uno studio pubblicato dall'Associazione avvocati matrimonialisti, oggi l'80% dei tradimenti sarebbe scoperto proprio tramite gli ultimi canali della comunicazione, cioè chat, social network e sms.

Il tradimento ai tempi dell'sms. Segreti e app per non far scoprire il "cheaxting"il Sole 24 Ore

Terminologia dello “jargon file": il vocabolario per antonomasia della cultura open source.

Jargon File

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Fasare
Da “to phase out” (arrivare a una conclusione). In ambito aziendale prende il significato di “coordinarsi”. Esempio: «Fasiamoci per bene sulla riunione di domani».
Follouare
Sempre dall’inglese, in questo caso è la trasposizione fonetica del verbo “to follow”. Significa seguire qualcuno o qualcosa sui social network. Esempio: «Mi stai follouando su Facebook?».




27 August 2014 update:
@WordLo@rafmerco fasare però credo derivi da sfasare, forse per una volta l'inglese non c'entra :)— Licia Corbolante (@terminologia) 27 Agosto 2014

Fonte: Wired, Geekzionario: "A forza di follouare tutti non ti fasi più e finisci a fappare"

Cedi anche: Briffare

At a coffee shop or similar establishment that offers free wireless Internet, a person who is oblivious to everyone and everything except the screen in front of them.

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Abbreviazione di "killer application", applicazione assassina.

Tecnologia (o applicazione secondaria di tecnologia) decisiva, vincente per imporre un prodotto contro altre tecnologie concorrenti.

fonte: Wired

An error made while using the thumbs to type, particularly on a mobile device keypad. [Blend of thumb and typo.]

How do you get rid of "thumbos," those cellphone message typos? Practice. And some handy tips.
—"Touch Type With Your Thumbs," One News Page, March 17, 2010


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meaning: “excessively or surreptitiously peruse another’s Facebook profile.

see also: Facebook narcissism

read more: Ben Zimmer on NYTimes

Diplomatic messages sent electronically using a Blackberry or similar device.

"Mr. Erdogan's warm embrace of Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Istanbul as "a dear friend" and his opposition to further sanctions against Iran (voted June 9 by the U.N. Security Council) mark Turkey's new "BlackBerry diplomacy," a break with conventional diplomacy - when major shifts take place in real time above the heads of foreign-policy officials and the diplomats with whom they normally deal."

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Why we make verbs of some brand names like "Google" and "Facebook", but not of others like "Powerpoint" or "Excel" or "iPod"?

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According to G.L.'s First Rule of Brand-Verbing, which is that people will verb a brand name if it refers to a clearly-defined, frequent action for which there isn't a perfectly adequate pre-existing verb. So to google became to search on the web, to facebook meant to look up or contact someone on Facebook, and to skype covers calling someone by VoIP telephony.

Presenting a more positive view of yourself than in reality, on social networking site FacebookThe neologism "Facebook narcissism" has even emerged to label the phenomenon. Many users present such a lopsided version of themselves that the "beautiful life" presented online bears little resemblance to the real thing.

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Crociata anti-anglicismi in Francia. Buzz, chat, newsletter, tuning e talk dal 30 marzo 2010 hanno ceduto il posto a espressioni francesi, create durante un concorso per studenti. Quest’iniziativa del segretario di Stato alla francofonia avrà seguito in altri paesi europei? Tour d’Europa per conoscere meglio questi anglicismi unificatori.

I francesi sono fieri della lingua di Molière? Un vecchio cliché che continua a resistere. Lo dimostra il concorso Francomot (“parole franche”) lanciato nel gennaio 2010 dal segretario di Stato alla francofonia Alain Jouyandet: dal 30 marzo, cinque anglicismi lessicali sono stati sostituiti da altrettanti termini francesi ideati da alcuni studenti, sotto lo sguardo attento di una giuria presieduta dallo scrittore Jean-Christophe Rufin e composta da musicisti rap come Mc Solaar o Sapho. I video su Youtube non faranno più “buzz” nella rete francese ma faranno “ramdam”, parola estrapolata direttamente dall’arabo. Niente più “chat” ma piuttosto “éblabla” o…

by Kerry Maxwell

Why bother twalking in person? Why not spend your twime tweeting? – twit’s twonnes more fun! Sorry, I’ll stop, before this gets irritating, but anyone who, like me, spends time observing new additions to our vocabulary, can’t fail to have noticed the fun people are currently having with that consonant cluster ‘tw’. Excluding the word two and its derivatives, words beginning ‘tw’ only occupy a couple of pages out of more than 1700 in the current edition of the Macmillan English Dictionary, but contemporary usage is beginning to suggest that the run of ‘tw’ entries may begin to grow a little... I’m talking of course about word formation in the world of Twitter.

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Buzzword Watch: "Acq-hire"
September 28, 2010

By Ben Zimmer

Earlier this month, a post by Dan Frommer on Business Insider had this to say about Google, Facebook and Apple: "Recently, all three companies have been making a lot of 'acq-hires,' where they buy a company to acquire its human resources." You read that right: acq-hire.

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Tecniche, più o meno automatizzate, di acquisizione di dati da pagine Web per poi rielaborarli altrove.

Il termine correlato “scraped content” di solito ha un’accezione più negativa: descrive il contenuto che viene duplicato e ripubblicato altrove senza autorizzazione dell’autore e senza link all’originale.
In italiano si tende a privilegiare il prestito "Web scraping" mentre per "scraped content" non c’è un termine preciso e vengono usate descrizioni tipo contenuto clonato, contenuto duplicato non autorizzato, ecc.

tratto da: Terminologia etc.